How much revenue did HUMANITY make?

$104k–$280k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did HUMANITY sell?

Q: How many copies did HUMANITY sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 509 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $104k–$280k after Steam's cut $189k–$431k before the cut; from 509 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left HUMANITY out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including HUMANITY's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.3M–16.5M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like HUMANITY

The middle of these games

≈ 5.3M–16.5M copies

≈ $40.6M–$95.5M after Steam's cut

from ~198k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 21 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 57.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2022, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.5M–20.4M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.6M after Steam's cut $62.6M–$142.5M before the cut	$9.99	198k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
I Love Finding MORE Pups 2022	Est. copies ≈ 74–121 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $244–$660 after Steam's cut $444–$1k before the cut	$11.99	3 reviews 3 user reviews	CasualHidden Object
Pets at Work 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut	$2.99	151 reviews Very Positive	Local Co-OpPuzzle-Platformer
Human Fall Flat 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $51.8M–$139.3M after Steam's cut $94.2M–$214.2M before the cut	$19.99	226k reviews Very Positive	Co-opFunny
LIMBO 2011	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.4M–$36.1M after Steam's cut $24.4M–$55.6M before the cut	$12.49	62k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerIndie
DOG'S DONUTS 2021	Est. copies ≈ 893–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $489–$1k after Steam's cut $889–$2k before the cut	$1.99	36 reviews Positive	PhysicsLemmings
Little Nightmares 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $22.0M–$59.2M after Steam's cut $40.1M–$91.1M before the cut	$19.99	117k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAtmospheric
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.4M–47.8M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut $147.0M–$334.4M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle